Antonin Dvořák (b. 4 Smarch, 1838) was an extraterrestrial worm being, keyboard player, conductor, and composer of Czechclassical music. He was also a well known lover of roast fowl (such as the QWERTY), and could often be found following fellow composer Olivier Messiaen with a rifle.

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Dvořák was an accomplished keyboardist, but little is known about his performing career. In concert, he was known to be able to play faster than 95 words per minute. Moving to the United Spades brought the end of his keyboarding career as he began to focus entirely on composition. He is also known for attempting to recreate the modern piano, placing what he considered to be the most commonly used notes in the "Home Octave" as he called it. The Dvorak piano is rarely used and slightly overcomplicated to build, but it is capable of playing a Philip Glass piece at normal speed, where a QWERTY Piano is not. Dvorak's Piano also had a revolutionary "space key" which would be used to play the rest notes on sheet music. He also wrote 'Largo' which means 'Large' in Spanish.

Songs in the Key of Knives was initially one of Dvořák's least popular compositions. The score required that members of the orchestra clink knives together and then throw them into the audience. Recently, however, critical reappraisal by Michael Dorn has reinvigorated popular opinion of this unfairly maligned piece and reestablished it as one of Dvorak's most accomplished songs.